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July 2012

During my Philosophy 101 class, I usually challenge my students to explain if a hammer would still be the same hammer after you replace the handle. Then, I ask them if it would be the same hammer if both the handle and the head were replaced it.

Last Friday, my editor called in the middle of the night and asked me to begin writing stories about the massacre in a movie theater in Aurora, just a few miles from my home of almost two decades and at a place I know and visit with some frequency. I wrote the stories, took pict…

The interminable saga of Colorado’s Secretary of State to “purge” illegal voters from official records is approaching soap-opera-like characteristics. However, there is nothing funny or entertaining about an initiative that now includes the federal government and that may have “…

At the end of each week, I ask my college students to tell me what caught their attention during that week of classes. Usually, students focus on some of the issues debated in class. But recently, a female student, daughter of Latino immigrants, told me that she was surprised to…

Let us assume somebody has the resources and the ability to make a good copy of the Mona Lisa painting. And let us also assume the copy is so good that non-experts have a hard time distinguishing it from the original. If that were to happen, nobody will think that the original M…